
EU Environmental Policies are Out of Control
At the EU level, environmental policies are mostly being continued as if there were no Russian invasion of Ukraine or large-scale energy crisis.

At the EU level, environmental policies are mostly being continued as if there were no Russian invasion of Ukraine or large-scale energy crisis.

This year’s drought has brought water reservoir levels so low that the government is considering having to temporarily stop hydroelectricity exports.

Despite clear evidence to the contrary, politicians continue to misrepresent the source of Spain’s fires as the consequence of climate change.

On July 3rd, farmers convened en masse in their tractors and blocked the German-Dutch border. Others protested by dumping manure in front of several public buildings. Reuters reports that on July 4th, they also blocked roads and supermarket distribution centres.

Despite resistance from Germany, the ministers aligned with the EU Parliament’s recent resolution to ban the sale of combustion engines in the block in 2035.

“The European Commission may rule lithium to be toxic. If it does, there will be widespread repercussions for Europe’s fledgling EV car and battery industries.”

Europe is immersed in an exercise of self-denial that will become self-destruction if a new course is not found.

A series of failures in the prevention of the flood catastrophe of July 2021 cost more than 100 lives in Germany alone. Newly-revealed chats that some high-ranking politicians were more concerned about not being blamed for those failures than about saving lives.

The latest IPCC report has once again painted a grim picture of man-made climate change, but skeptics call out its reliance on “implausibly fast models of warming” and flag it as “long on speculation, but short on facts.”

Less than a month after Poland broke ground on the border wall, a collection of leftist and pro-migration NGOs have urged the European Commission to halt the project on account of the negative impact it may have on the environment.